3.22.02

Eastern High School Championship 2002

By JC Freer

 


Easterns

        Now I might not be the best skier in the world, but I can still say that the Easterns were a fun circuit of races. There were some ups and downs to staying in the same hotel as the coaches, one of them is that they wake you up at least an hour before you even have to go to breakfast, but that's not what the Easterns are all about. The Easterns are also suppose to bring all of the kids from each state together and to socialize, they even set up a dance for everyone together. This dance was a good idea but
turned out to be a few people in room 280 dancing to the music of a portable cd-player and mini-speakers. Considering the amount of snow the courses were good other then the fact that the snow was well.....brown. All our the coaches of the New Hampshire team felt that it was necessary to take the whole team out before the sprints and to ski the 6k individual course before
the sprints. Now that would of been a good idea if they new where the course went, but sadly they didn't so the whole team of 40+ people skied around amolosly for one hour following no specific path, but at least it was
a good idea.
        As some of you who are reading this have heard the Russian team did appear at these races as guests as well as at the j2-festival. They did very well and received medals for what they achieved. I might not of done that well in the races at all but it was a very good experience and I know what to expect for the races next year, I had a very good time and hope everyone will eventually get to go